Session 1️⃣: Logistics
Valerie Hase (LMU Munich)
Hands up 🤚 if you…
have a background in social science
have a background in computer science
mostly work with R
mostly work with Python
have applied automated text analysis before yesterday
ever used (word) embeddings
Postdoc at LMU, Department of Communication (previously: University of Zurich, LSE)
Focus:
Shoutout 🙌 and a big thank you to today’s teaching assistant Renata Topinková. More info on her here: renatatopinkova.github.io
| Time ⏰ | ||
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 - 10:30 | 1️⃣: Logistics, 2️⃣: Going beyond bag of words: An introduction, 3️⃣: Vector Space Models | |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Coffee break ☕ | |
| 10:45 - 12:15 | 4️⃣: Embeddings | |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Introduction to group exercise 🤝 | |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch 🥗 | |
| 13:30 - 15:45 | Group exercise 🤝 | |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Coffee break ☕ | |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Talk by Stefanie Walter |
These are the packages that we will need today:
In addition, we need to install the following unpublished package directly from Github:
Overview pieces by Grimmer et al. (2022) and Jurafsky & Martin (2023).
Any questions? 🤔